Messianic Pastor’s Clarification on Christianity’s Wrong Celebration of Christmas

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[First posted during the Christmas season, year 2017.  Why are we posting an article like this which goes against everything we believe in and teach in this website?  For one, it comes from a Christian-Messianic pastor/teacher who first corrected our ‘wrong’ Christian orientation for decades that we believed and trusted in his personal research and deviation from mainstream Christianity’s teaching.   For another,  we were inspired by his zeal for truth which influenced our zeal for truth so much so we even veered from his interpretation of truth and gotten off his pathway to find our way to the original pathway to YHWH’s Revelation on Sinai.  Then we left his Messianic Congregation, to his and our messianic colleague’s dismay (not to forget condemnation and judgment that we’ve lost our salvation and are hell-bound).  So back to the question, why post a correction of the Christmas Story we don’t even believe in? Because it was still sent to us despite knowing fully well we are off that old trail;  perhaps in an attempt to redirect us to return to Christ-centered religion/belief system.  

We have repeatedly announced there is no turning back for us, over and over again, but that doesn’t sit well with our well-meaning Christian friends who don’t give up on evangelizing the “lost” or “damned” because they sincerely and truly care about the eternal destiny of unbelievers, that’s now the category we belong to. Anyway, this is a reminder to Sinaites of what we used to swallow about Christmas and the correction of our former teacher of everything wrong with the traditional teaching about Christmas.  Wow, how far have we indeed travelled from such ‘truth’ and thinking!  Indeed, there is NO TURNING BACK! But we’re giving our former teacher his chance to convince our web-visitors, since we are fair and believe in equal opportunity in this discourse and we trust that  our web-visitors have learned to decide for themselves what to believe. . . . right?  Related articles are the following: 

• Revisit: So, do Sinaites celebrate Christmas?
• Revisit: Who really was born on December 25?
• The hand that rocked baby Jesus’ cradle
• Revisit: If you don’t believe in the Christian Savior, how can you be saved?
• Q&A: Who is the Wonderful Counselor, Prince of Peace in Isaiah 9:6
• Revisit: The Point of No Return

The original text has been reformatted for this post. Merry Christmas to our Christian colleagues, we celebrate the holiday for different reasons!—Admin1]

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YESHUA’S BIRTH

By Roger W. Walkwitz

[Founder of Asia-Pacific Messianic Congregation]

The following gives the most likely time, from the Bible, when the Body for Yeshua was delivered.

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It is well known that Yeshua was NOT born on December 25! The birth of Yeshua was not celebrated for several hundred years after Yeshua! Then the gentile dominated RC [Roman Catholic] Church decided to join the pagans in the popular celebration of their god Saturn in December, but called it instead Christ’s Mass or Christmas and designated it the birth of Jesus, with no historical data whatever to back it up.

“The Church” decides! Christmas Tradition is so entrenched that most do not even want to know its origin. Many who do know, continue the tradition anyway, for various reasons. It is a time also when Jews have been persecuted in many “Christian” countries.

It would please the LORD if we would do and celebrate what He has designated, the Appointed Times of the

LORD (Moedim) found in Leviticus 23, rather than what man decides.

The clue is in Luke 1:5. Zechariah, father of John the baptizer, was a priest of the division of Abijah. When

King David reorganized the priesthood, as related in 1 Chronicles 24, the numerous priests were divided into

24 divisions. According to Josephus, one division should minister to God eight days, from Sabbath to Sabbath, with two divisions serving on each Shabbat. Each priest served with his division for eight days, then again six months later for another eight days. All of the priests, however, served during the busy times of the Passover season and Sukkot (Festival of Booths or Tabernacles). All 52 weeks in the year were then taken care of.

For our study, let us take the year 2000-2001, Jewish year 5760-5761.

• The division of Abijah was 8th in order. Exodus 12 makes Nisan (Abib) the first month of the year. Nisan 1, 5760 corresponds to April 6, 2000.
• Passover/Unleavened Bread is from Nisan 14 – 22, or April 19 – 27, 2000. The first division of the priests would start on Shabbat, Nisan 24 (April 29) and serve through Iyar 1 (May 6). Division 2 would share with division 1 on this Shabbat, and continue for their 8 day service. Division 8 would begin on Sivan 14 (June 17) and complete their service at the conclusion of Sivan 21 (June 24).
• During this week Zechariah is visited by the angel and told about the birth of his son by Elizabeth, to be named John. On Sivan 22 he goes home. Elizabeth had already passed menopause long ago. Normally she would get pregnant anytime during the first few weeks that Zechariah was home, but this was to be an unusual birth. Nine months from this time brings us up to the time of Passover, which is always Nisan 14 – 22, corresponding this time to April 7 – 15, 2001. John the baptizer was therefore born at the time of Passover/Unleavened Bread.
• Mary was told by Gabriel that she would get pregnant without the benefit of a man, and that her relative Elizabeth was already 6 months pregnant. Therefore, the Body that God prepared for Yeshua to enter would be delivered 6 months after John’s birth, at the time of Sukkot, always Tishri 15 – 23, corresponding to October 2 – 10, 2001. (Since each course served twice a year, 6 months apart, it could be reversed, John born at Sukkot and Yeshua at Passover.
• However, Yeshua taught for 3.5 years, beginning when He was 30 years old and was crucified at Passover time, so Mary’s delivery of His Body at Sukkot fits the data.)
• At Sukkot and at Passover, Jerusalem and its suburbs such as Bethlehem were crowded with worshipers who came for the required three pilgrimage Festivals. That is the main reason there was no room for them in the inn, not just the census.
• Shepherds are not in the fields with their sheep during the cold, winter months of December through February.
• Sometimes it snows at the altitude of Bethlehem and Jerusalem, as this is also rainy season.
• Yeshua was a fully human being as Adam was before he sinned, termed the 2nd Adam (1 Corinthians 15:47).
• Yeshua was not in the belly of Mary for nine months. Yeshua continued as Deity but laid aside His glory as YHVH and entered the Body that Mary had prepared for Him as it was being delivered or as it took its first breath.
• Yeshua was called Imanu El, God (El) with us (Matthew 1:23). His Body was conceived miraculously with no human male sperm or female egg, as both are contaminated by sin, and delivered normally.
• He lived a miraculous life, and His death and Resurrection were miraculous.
• His Return will also be miraculous, so let us not worship Him with the tinsel of paganism, but in spirit and truth according to the evidence given to us.